Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm allocating internal capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Our collective expertise spans traders, engineers, and technologists, unified by an unwavering dedication to enhance our efficiency as a premier liquidity provider for globally listed derivatives. We leverage groundbreaking execution and pricing technologies to elevate and improve how financial markets operate . Maven continues to scale its operations while preserving the dynamic energy and innovative culture of a start-up, but without the associated risks.
The Role:
This newly created role represents a strategic opportunity to build the firm's compensation framework from the ground up. As a Compensation Specialist, you will design, benchmark, and evolve compensation structures that reflect our performance-driven culture and operational scale.
Working closely with HR leadership, Finance, ExCo members and functional heads across Market Making and Multi-Strategy, you’ll take ownership of a full-spectrum compensation architecture from salary calibration to long-term incentives. You’ll ensure our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) reflects our values, supports retention, and keeps us competitive within the trading landscape.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and implement a comprehensive compensation framework to cover fixed pay, variable pay, LTIPs, sign-ons, benefits, and equity
- Utilise the already established job architecture to support transparent progression and cross-divisional clarity
- Develop compensation structures tailored to the distinct needs of Market Making, Multi-Strategy, Technology and Operational units
- Conduct benchmarking across peer firms (buyside, banks, tech) for comparable trading and quant roles
- Analyse compensation trends and competitor positioning to inform reward philosophy
- Model scenarios for new compensation mechanics (e.g. deferrals, clawbacks, risk-adjusted metrics)
- Own cyclical compensation review processes across the firm, including salary reviews, bonus modeling, and deferred distributions
- Ensuring documentation is structured effectively and adequately recorded to allow for accurate and timely compensation calculations
- Partner with Finance to align models with budget and accrual accounting strategy
- Ensure governance and documentation to support confidentiality, consistency, and audit-readiness
- Collaborate with the Chief People Officer and ExCo to craft a compelling EVP rooted in company values, competitiveness, and career growth
- Support senior leaders in reward decision-making and communication
- Partner with Legal on contractual updates, policy refreshes, and regulatory alignment
Experience & Capabilities:
- Proven experience in compensation or reward, ideally within financial services, proprietary trading, or high-growth tech
- Strong technical capability in modeling, benchmarking, and total reward design
- Ability to navigate high-sensitivity data and align frameworks to commercial strategy
- Experience working across complex or high-performance environments with diverse role types
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills—comfortable engaging with ExCo and guiding people managers
- Excellent attention to detail with a dedication to accuracy, quality, and integrity
- Highly analytical with strong problem solving skills and the ability to balance multiple deadlines
- Strong Excel skills
Compensation & Benefits:
As this role defines the compensation structure it will operate within, the package will reflect seniority, impact, and internal parity.
- Competitive base salary aligned to high-performance financial services
- Annual bonus linked to firm performance and role outcomes
- Benefits include private medical, enhanced pension, well-being support, and hybrid working
- Flexible compensation components based on experience and value-add
